Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 1, 2011

And even the best teams combined to create big innovations sometimes don’t time markets well, are surprised by unexpected technology breakthroughs by competitors or just don’t find the magic the leads to mass customer adoption. I was thinking about all of this as I looked at the logs from my WordPress blog this evening.

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This is going to be BIG.

MARCH 10, 2011

From a technology perspective, so many parts of the stack have been made easier--from spinning up servers on EC2 and S3, to getting hosted Rails infrastructure on Heroku. Even the one time blogging platform of choice Wordpress can, without a lot of hassles, can be manipulated to be your entire site's content management system.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 6, 2013

Tech teams are comprised of three distinct managements skills: people, process & technology. Equally – a great VP Finance can be leveraged well to take on finance, legal, HR and much of the operational tasks. Your first sales people should be consultative sellers who can fuel evangelical sales. Know the difference.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

I was reading Chris Dixon’s blog tonight. I came across this blog post about getting a computer science degree as the best degree for getting into venture capital or working at a VC-backed start up. He’s a star who has a very intuitive feel for technology and … no MBA. I had to laugh a bit reading it.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JULY 6, 2020

When I ran my very first startup, Brainstorm Technologies, I would go to our CEO group and there was always at least one other entrepreneur who was going through similar (or even tougher) challenges. Join a CEO peer group. If you are in a peer group with other CEOs , it’s much easier to get perspective on what’s happening to you.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 6, 2016

In 2008 I started VC blogging. I had blogged when I was an entrepreneur. I started doing SnapStorms, which are short burst of video around a certain startup or financing topic. But how can you invest in technology unless you’re going to use the tools and understand them? Right now the volume is manageable during an AMA.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 24, 2014

Helping companies get to next financing round successfully: I was just beginning this phase in Sept 2010 and said so. I’ve now been involved with many other successful foll0w-on financings. “Ok, so this guy can write a blog and source deals but can he make any money?” Sourcing high-quality leads : 9/10.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MAY 17, 2024

With passion, hustle, and these thrifty startup strategies, you can transform your vision into a viable product without relying on loans or financing. First, leverage digital fabrication technologies, such as 3D printing, to create affordable prototypes for testing and validation. and more articles from the EO blog.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

NOVEMBER 27, 2020

It has become an essential way to pay—whether you’re purchasing a water bottle at the kiosk around the corner or financing your wedding plans. Tesla has offered to share its innovative battery technology and other software with the automotive industry. The post The business model of the future appeared first on THE BLOG.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

DECEMBER 2, 2020

Contributed by Madhavan Sivashankar , chief executive officer and founder, Gulf International Finance Limited. We invested in online technologies and continue to do so, to improve communication and its periodicity. The post 3 steps toward agility and resilience appeared first on THE BLOG. Sylvester Stallone, Rocky Balboa.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

OCTOBER 27, 2023

Those moments are created by deep thought and reflection and looking at the problems, examining them, looking for solutions, looking at emerging technologies. It’s vital to reflect upon, what does the business truly need and how far can you go without external financing? and more articles from the EO blog.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 29, 2009

so compelling (other than the fact that the CEO Sean Rad is a great young technology leader and his advisers – Brian Norgard , Dan Gould and Evan Rifkin - are some of the guys I respect most in the LA tech market.). Then came blogs. Finance and a host of other wonderful services brought to you by their sponsors.

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This is going to be BIG.

MARCH 1, 2010

It’s often some combination of the idea not being big enough to sustain a venture exit or the company just not being appropriate for venture financing. My company was not well executed enough to achieve venture capital financing—and that wasn’t the city’s fault, it was mine. I was there, too. They’re not “dumb Wall Street money”.

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A Smart Bear

JANUARY 4, 2018

The Silicon Valley-oriented technology press outlets don’t cover us because we’re not in San Francisco, even though we’re more successful than most of the startups they cover. This week we closed $250M in financing from Silver Lake , the premier technology private equity firm. We just announced a few more things.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 15, 2010

Clearly a startup should consult its lawyer before filing or not filing.But the attorneys I relied on to write this piece told me that they’ve done lots of Section 4(2) deals in the past, and would recommend it to clients who had relatively simple financing agreements (not tranched-out, not too many investors, etc.) Short answer: no.

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Founder Bounty

APRIL 2, 2023

One of the best ways to stay up-to-date with the latest trends and best practices is to follow entrepreneurship blogs. In this blog post, we'll look at the top entrepreneurship blogs in 2023. Founderbounty : is a leading blog and podcast on how to build a business from some expericned YC and techstars founders.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JULY 23, 2020

Your remote workforce will be entirely reliant on technology to perform their essential duties—and the data collected since the coronavirus shutdown supports this. She enjoys informing readers about topics spanning industries such as technology, business, finance, culture, wellness, hospitality and tourism. Tech-Savvy.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 7, 2011

Sometime around 2003/04 my technology team turned me on to “Spolsky on Software&# a periodic newsletter served up blog style from Joel Spolsky of FogCreek Software, a maker of bug-tracking software. Blogs weren’t popularized yet so it was an oddity for me to read the founder of a software company spewing out advice.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

APRIL 20, 2020

I wrote a blog post on March 12th called Open For Business and thought I would return to the topic. Since writing that post, we have watched a bunch of our portfolio companies close financings, some on the same terms as provided before the pandemic and some on slightly adjusted terms. But our experience doesn’t match that scorn.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

This happens slowly because while public markets trade daily and prices then adjust instantly, private markets don’t get reset until follow-on financing rounds happen which can take 6–24 months. Of these companies that become well financed we only need 15–25% of THOSE to pan out to return 2–3x the fund. It’s just math.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

OCTOBER 6, 2021

I analyzed my financial circumstances and calculated how much time I would have to “make some hay” before my personal finances would come crashing down around me. I relentlessly pursued the deal, and less than a year later, I was running a 55-employee operation in a niche sector of the gaming technology services space.

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OurCrowd

MARCH 16, 2021

Tokyo/Jerusalem – March 16, 2021 – NTT Finance , a subsidiary of NTT Group (Nippon Telegraph and Telephone), announced today that it will establish NTT Finance Israel LP together with OurCrowd. NTT Finance will commit $15 million (1.5 NTT Finance will commit $15 million (1.5 For more information visit: [link].

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

APRIL 27, 2020

I wrote a blog post in September of last year arguing that gross margins and operating margins really matter when valuing companies. Here is a screenshot of a part of Adyen’s income statement from Yahoo Finance : So Adyen operated in the last twelve months with an 18.7% gross margin. They do very little with that money.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 28, 2010

This includes seed funding Automattic (who produce WordPress, the blog I use for this website) and investing in formspring.me, stickybits, Thing Labs (producer of Brizzly), KissMetrics and many others including Quantcast. Venture Financings we Discussed. Formerly known as Fonelet Technologies. Founded in Sunnyvale, CA in 2001.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 1, 2011

If you get a moment, as a favor to John for having produced such wonderful notes I’d be grateful if you would check out his most excellent startup blog The X Factor. I appreciate the write-up and your continued support of this blog. Thank you, John. Why AltaVista Failed To Become as Successful as Google. How Hashable Got Buzz.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 5, 2014

Last week a company we enthusiastically backed, uBeam , led by a very special entrepreneur, 25-year-old Meredith Perry , announced a $10 million round of financing. What person hasn’t crouched at an airport to get 18% extra on one’s battery before boarding an airplane?

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TechCrunch

MARCH 21, 2022

Tech talent flees Russia : As the Russian invasion of Ukraine grinds along, technology companies of all sizes are trying to figure out how to handle their business operations and staff. As a result, simple blog posts lost their luster years ago, found reporter Ron Miller. We’re super stoked to have her aboard! The TechCrunch Top 3.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

She found what we did interesting and liked the idea of working with technology and making things work. She has BS in Biomedical Photography from Rochester Institute of Technology and she had worked as a product expert at the technology firm Zeiss. She managed the co-working space I was working in. She said, “I got this.”

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 13, 2011

Brad on blogging. How did you start blogging? “My My initial desire to blog came from something that’s always been my approach to investing – I’m a nerd and I love to play with the technology and part of my approach has really been to understand things both at a user level and at a reasonably deep tentacle level.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

FEBRUARY 1, 2016

By Andrew Armstrong, an Octane blog contributor. Your success will likely hinge on how well you handle finances, the quality of your equipment, and your ability to market yourself. Get a website, blog regularly, learn how to get found by the search engines, and establish yourself on social media. Success tips.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 5, 2014

What would the right technology strategy for Telecom Italia be in 5 years. I believe that our job can be stripped away to its core: We have to be really good at identifying talent and we have to be competent enough in startup operations and finance that they want to work with us and figure out the answers together.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JANUARY 31, 2017

The post Adopting and Abandoning Technology in Your Company appeared first on THE BLOG. How does your company embrace change and adopt new trends without losing the momentum and focus that is vital to your success? Respond in the comments section below!

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

NOVEMBER 24, 2023

Implement special tools and technology. Alex has extensive experience working in finance operations, mergers and acquisitions, venture capital, and private equity-backed companies. and more articles from the EO blog. The post Elevate Your Startup’s Future with 4 Financial Forecasting Game-Changers first appeared on The EO Blog.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 10, 2021

consumer investing and trading service Robinhood announced this morning that it will acquire Say Technologies in a $140 million cash deal. Say Technologies is a venture-backed startup, having raised $8 million in 2018, per Crunchbase data. Say has the technology to connect retail investors to the companies that they own.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MARCH 3, 2023

We love working in this industry because we believe in the technology behind it. Whether their expertise ranges from gaming and finance, or art and tokenomics, it’s critical to select the right people carefully. You also need to find people who are passionate about the industry and believe in technology.

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David Teten VC

DECEMBER 3, 2019

When I met my now-wife, I realized that any technology that can find me a spouse is a killer app. I’d argue that the same type of technologies that have revolutionized dating can revolutionize our industry. . I walk through below how progressive investors are using technology and analytics throughout all of their operations.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 4, 2013

I eventually stumbled on to the best source of high-quality deal flow imaginable – blogging. And they have access to some of the most talented technology entrepreneurs so this is a worthy goal for them. I would gladly work with you on a $50 million late-stage, complex financing. I attended events. I did speaking gigs.

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